Plans for a seven story 129,724 square foot apartment building on S. Johns Place have been filed with the Department of Buildings, of which 83,789 will be residential and make up 122 apartments averaging around 650 square feet per apartment.
Rabbi Hershel Lustig, principal of Oholei Torah, paid a visit to the Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager, who is currently residing in Crown Heights during an extended visit to the United States. The purpose of his visit was to gift ‘Reb Mendeleh’ a special sefer, which bears a connection between the two men.
Regional Shabbatons, the Yaldei Hashluchim Book Library, online Farbrengens and surprise nosh packages are all part of the mix when it comes to caring for the well-being of Shluchim’s children. But on Wednesday, it was the “big brothers” of MyShliach’s Ach Sheli program who were given the attention.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Shlomo Zalman Tzvi halevi ben Yehudis Chava, a 36 year old who suffered a heart attach and is currently in the Intensive Care Unit and needs a complete refuah shlaima.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Nissin Moskovitz, OBM, of Caracas, Venezuela, Father of Rabbi Moishe Moskovitz, the Chief Rabbi and Chabad emissary to Kharkov Ukraine. He was 86 years old.
A Crown Heights man’s car was stolen by two teenagers after he left it unattended with the keys in the ignition, but was able to track it down thanks to a built-in GPS system.
Yitzy and Menucha (nee Fajnland) Geisinsky (Crown Heights)
Avraham Fried today released his latest new single, titled ‘Riboin,’ which is available for listening and download free of charge.
Two yeshiva students were injured in a terrorist attack near the light rail station on Jerusalem’s Ammunition Hill Friday afternoon.
Daylight Savings Time comes to an end this Motzei Shabbos. At 2:00am, all clocks should “fall back” to 1:00am, giving everyone a much appreciated extra hour of sleep.
A video of rare footage showing the Rebbe as he walks to and from the Chabad library next door to 770 in 1985 was recently obtained by JEM, who edited and released it for the community to view. One of the children seen in the footage is Rabbi Mendy Krinsky, who narrates the video.
The Rebbe Maharash had a simple chossid who would pay a visit to the Rebbe in Lubavitch every so often. Once, during yechidus, the Rebbe told him to buy a Chumash with teitch (Yiddish translation) and begin studying it.
Abba Levine (Agoura Hills, CA) and Shaina Bloom (Sydney, Australia)
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Leor Broh will lead a discussion on Parshas Vayeira.
Following his success with a series of educational videos for Jewish children, Chaim Hershkowitz will be releasing a new project geared for Lubavitcher children titled ‘The Rebbe’s Nigunim.’
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe speaking to an Israeli diplomat during the 1976 visit of soon-to-be Prime Minster Menachem Begin.
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